ANALYST REPORT
A Gartner® Peer Insights™ “Customers’ Choice” for Endpoint and XDR
Sophos has been recognized as a “Customers’ Choice” vendor in the 2025 Voice of the Customer report for Endpoint Protection Platforms AND Extended Detection and Response.

2024 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise
Discover Sophos’ exceptional results in the latest ATT&CK® Evaluations, highlighting our commitment to delivering best-in-class endpoint detection and response.


Sophos named a “Customers’ Choice” for Endpoint Protection, MDR, XDR, and Firewall
Sophos is the only vendor to be named a “Customers’ Choice” in each of these categories: Endpoint Protection Platforms, Extended Detection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, and Network Firewalls

Trusted by more than 600,000 customers worldwide
Sophos tops leading analyst report lists for its open platform and AI-powered threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities.
Grid® Report for Firewall Software, Fall 2025
Sophos Firewall rated the #1 overall firewall solution by customers in G2's Fall 2025 Reports
Grid® Report for MDR, Fall 2025
Sophos MDR rated the #1 overall MDR solution by customers in G2's Fall 2025 Reports

Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms 2025
Sophos named a Leader for the 16th consecutive time

2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Extended Detection and Response
Sophos named a “Customers’ Choice” vendor

2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection Platforms
Sophos named a “Customers’ Choice” vendor

2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Managed Detection and Response Services
Sophos named a “Customers’ Choice” vendor

2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Network Firewalls
Sophos named a “Customers’ Choice” vendor

2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response (MDR) 2024 Vendor Assessment
Sophos named a Leader

2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Small Businesses
Sophos named a Leader

2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Midsize Businesses
Sophos named a Leader

Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services
Sophos named a Representative Vendor
The only vendor named a Leader in EPP, EDR, MDR, XDR, and Firewall in the G2 Fall 2025 Reports

Virus Bulletin's VBSpam Email Security Comparative Review - June 2025
Sophos Email achieved a perfect malware catch rate and had zero false positives in the Q2 2025 VBSpam test

Industry awards

Enterprise Endpoint (Windows)
This award recognises the most effective and reliable endpoint protection solution for enterprise environments running Microsoft Windows. Recipients have demonstrated superior threat detection, operational stability, and resilience against targeted attacks, verified through SE Labs’ independent testing framework.

Small Business Endpoint (Windows)
Tailored for the needs of smaller organisations, this award celebrates endpoint security products that provide strong out-of-the-box protection, ease of management, and robust real-world defence for Windows-based networks, without requiring enterprise-level resources to operate effectively.

Small Business Managed Service Provider Solution
With many small businesses relying on external partners to deliver cyber security expertise, this award highlights the top-performing products that are available to MSPs that deliver managed endpoint protection with clarity, efficiency, and measurable results. Winners have proven their capability to scale security services and respond rapidly to threats.
Independent third-party testing
Sophos consistently receives top scores in SE Labs’ independent endpoint security tests for enterprise and SMB. A 100% Total Accuracy score is an achievement that competitors including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Trend Micro, Bitdefender, ESET, and others, have not matched.
Gartner®, Peer Insights™, Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Peer Contributors, 23 May 2025
Gartner®, Peer Insights™, Voice of the Customer for Extended Detection and Response, Peer Contributors, 23 May 2025
Gartner®, Peer Insights™, Voice of the Customer for Managed Detection and Response, Peer Contributors, 28 November 2024
Gartner®, Peer Insights™, Voice of the Customer for Network Firewalls, Peer Contributors, 30 May 2024
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